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    The relationship between dysfunctional attitudes, self-esteem, life event stressors and depression Among Addis Ababa University students
    (Addis Ababa University, 2014-10) Hussen, Eden; Singh, Yeswant (Professor)
    Studies has consistently demonstrated that major depressive episode in patients compared to controls is preceded by major life event stressors. Beck postulated that maladaptive cognitive styles when triggered by stressful life events leads to depression. Self esteem is also a vulnerability factor to depression. Self esteem deficits are thought to play a Role in vulnerability to depression. thus the present study objective was investigating how prevalent depression is in university students and examining the main effects and interaction effects of self esteem ,dysfunctional attitudes, life event stressors, and gender on depressive symptoms among university students (N = 308). cross sectional research design was utilized to met the research objectives. Prevalence rate of 31.8% was found among AAU students. Regression analysis has shown that dysfunctional attitudes, self esteem, life stressors and gender had a unique significant contribution to the variability of depression and the regression model that included these variables was significant predictor of depression. The above mentioned variables were tested for their interactive effects on depression. Interaction of life stressors and dysfunctional attitudes, and life stressors and gender were not significant predictors of depression. However Interaction of self esteem and dysfunctional attitudes were significant predictors of depression. These results suggest that self esteem, dysfunctional attitudes, gender and life stressors have relationship with depression and might be vulnerability factors to depression. Dysfunctional attitudes and self esteem in combination predicts depression above and beyond the independent effect each have on depression.